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Labor of God : The Agony of the Cross as the Birth of the Church /
In Labor of God, author Tom Bennett revisits the church's speech about the cross. He recovers an equally shocking, but often overlooked, metaphor from Scripture and tradition: the cross as an act of divine labor, the travail through which God gives birth to the church. This ancient understandin...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waco, Texas :
Baylor University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Retrieving the forgotten root : the scandal of the cross as the labor of God
- Speaking the labor of God : metaphor and the truth of religious language
- Converting the cross : how torture becomes childbirth
- Birthing the church : how the cross addresses sin
- Transcending exchange : how the family of God gives up the gift
- Expanding the agony of the cross : how labor opens fresh theological frontiers.